One of our most recent visits to a gallery was in January when we checked out the Safari Gallery in Vigan which housed and displayed all the taxidermized animals that were brought home by one of the country's trophy hunters.
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One of our most recent visits to a gallery was in January when we checked out the Safari Gallery in Vigan which housed and displayed all the taxidermized animals that were brought home by one of the country's trophy hunters.
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The place is awesome. It do rise mixed feelings.
Kinda sad the way those were gotten. But it becomes a registry for history.
You are right, the place does bring mixed emotions. Fascinating yet saddening. The owner has himself a registry for all his hunted animals. It can be a source of learning for people who are visiting.
The air-conditioned gallery has an extensive collection of wild animals, most of them we haven't seen in real life, except that these were dead, preserved in their real-life forms, and displayed like they were sculptures or something.
The largest ones like the African Elephant, Rhino, African Lion, and Buffalo were placed at the center of the room.
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Different heads of horned animals adorned the walls, including framed photos of the hunter himself and the creatures he killed during his hunting years.
There were deer, impala, kudu, moose, wapiti and what have you. It made me wonder how many years he had been hunting that he had so much in his collection.
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There were many others that I couldn't identify if there were no labels on them. Wolverine, lions, and other wild cats, a hippo, a Nile crocodile, oxen, mule, marco polo, etc.
There were dark bears, a Polar Bear, and birds too.
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The experience was surreal and I was in denial at first, thinking they were only wax figures and not real skins of animals that were treated with chemicals. It was my first time entering a trophy gallery after all and it was beyond me.
I have shared about the visit previously and more photos on it. The pictures on this threadstorm might be similar but they have not been included in that post.
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This, by the way, is my participation in the March Prompts initiative by INLEO. Check it out and share your experience too!
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https://inleo.io/@leo.tasks/february-inleo-winners-march-monthly-prompt
Wow, I haven't seen anything like this before...
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Sad for the animals though...
Yeah. While it can be interesting to see them, thinking about the animals being hunted and killed, then skinned makes one sad.
Yep...
Although, the excitement and wonder quickly overcomes the sadness 😂